Re: [Boost-testing] Updated library_status for easier use..

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Updated library_status for easier use..
From: Jessica Hamilton (jessica.l.hamilton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-30 18:00:23

On 1 May 2015 at 03:46, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Rene Rivera-2 wrote
>> > Following up on the reorganization of the regression tools.. I'm happy
>> > to
>> > say that part of the changes I pushed last night include a cleaned up
>> > and
>> > easier to use library_status tool. Key changes, from the older version
>> > and
>> > the one Robert forked
>>
>> lol - I'm not sure that's the right term as I wrote it in the first place
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>
> Good point :-)
>
>>
>> > , are:
>> >
>> > * Processing the jam log (i.e. process_jam_log) is integrated into it.
>>
>> I'm not at all sure this is great idea.
>>
>> What happens when there is not log to process?
>
>
> Nothing is processed, as might be expected.
>
>>
>>   It's not uncommon for
>> me to run b2 - then find that there is a snafu of some sort.  e.g.
>> recently
>> I ran with toolset=gcc-4.9 on my mac os system when I should have
>> ran with darwin-4.8  Of course this created a column in the chart with
>> 1000 lines of failures.  To address cases like these it would be custom to
>> remove all the directories for the bogus tests and re-run library_status
>> which would re-build the chart.
>>
>> I don't see how one is going to do that now.
>
>
> That would still work.. As processing the log just places XML files in those
> same test directories you would delete.
>
>> > * Running b2 to build/run tests is also integrated into it (optionally).
>>
>> which sounds like another bad idea.  I'm not sure how one passes all the
>> command line parameters through library_status (I think library_status
>> has some of it's own also) but at the least it requires an update in
>> the documentation - which library_status hardly needed at all.
>
>
> From the documentation:
>
> regression-root/stage/bin/library_status --b2 b2 --boost-root=../../..
> toolset=msvc-7.1 variant=debug,release
>
> But of course docs where minimal before, as they still are. So documenting
> all the options in the HTML would be good.
>
>> > Which means that there's no external support script(s) needed and that
>> > it's
>> > fully cross-platform single executable. Documentation is updated at <
>> > https://rawgit.com/boostorg/regression/develop/index.html> on how to
>> > build
>> > it and on using it at <
>> >
>> > https://rawgit.com/boostorg/regression/develop/library_status/doc/library_status.html
>> >>.
>> > Obviously improvements from others welcome (as PRs).
>>
>> OK, good luck with this.  Shouldn't be a big issue since as far as I know
>> only two people
>> besides myself (and now you) have shown any interest.
>
>
> All I was trying to do was to make it easier by only needing *one* program
> to worry about not a dance of three plus multiple per-platform scripts. So
> perhaps you are right and I should just abandon this. I'll delete
> library_status from the regression repo and you can deal with it on your
> own. That way I can concentrate on replacing the regression reporting with
> something modern and responsive.

I haven't had a chance yet, but I'd like to utilise it.

With the port to Haiku still being fairly new, there are many, many
bugs & issues that I need to address, and this sounds like it does the
job perfectly.